It is by no means a complete list (a much larger list can be found in my book on Sephardic genealogy) but it is hoped that these will be useful as a start in your own searches. Even though the books are divided into sections for convenience, Jews frequently moved from region to region (between Spain and North Africa in pre-expulsion days and between Italy, the Ottoman empire, North Africa, and the Americas after that). It is therefore important to read books from all sections to avoid getting an erroneous view of Jews of this or that region as a separate isolated entity. Sephardic Jews were in constant contact with each other, both physically and intellectually, and frequently travelled to and from Baghdad to Spain to North Africa as these books clearly demonstrate.

Many of these books are out of print and hard to find. Look for them in local University or Jewish Libraries.

1. A few can be found at discount internet sources such as: Click here to connect to . Where I could, I have provided, next to the book, a direct link to Amazon which usually has the best prices.

Les Noms des Juifs du Maroc
Institut Montano, Madrid, 1978
Extensive biographic listing with detailed sources, etc. Terrific for genealogists. This book which was
out of print and long unavailable has now been reprinted and available in 2 volumes in Spain.

Sephardic Genealogy: Discovering Your Sephardic Ancestors and Their World.2nd Ed., Avotaynu, 2009.
Click here for Table of Contents and to order from Avotaynu.
Indispensible. The ONLY comprehensive book for Sephardic Genealogy. --
History, research methods, PRE-EXPULSION AND INQUISITION records, archives, surnames, maps, bibliography, and more.

The Tortosa disputation : regesta of documents from the Archivo de la Corona de Aragon, Fernando I, 1412-1416.Jerusalem: Hispania Judaica, Dinur Institute, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 1998
Good source of names and archival extracts.

Gerber, Jane

The Jews of Spain: A History of the Sephardic Experience.The Free Press, MacMillan, New York, 1992.
Order from Amazon Books now.A must read. (And a good friend of my dad's).

Judios de Toledo.Institut Arias Montano, Madrid
List of Jews who lived in Toledo and Court Documents about them. For list see Ben Nahman's page.

Katz, Israel J. and M. Serels

Studies on the History of Portuguese Jews from Their Expulsion in 1497 Through Their Dispersion.New York: Sepher-Hermon Press for the American Society of Sephardic Studies, 2000.
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Liebman, Seymour B.

The Inquisitors and the Jews in the New World.University of Miami Press
Except for a brief introduction, the entire book is a listing of Inquisition Records in the New World. Good source for converso names in the New World.

The Jews in the Crown of Aragon : regesta of the Cartas reales in the Archivo de la Corona de Aragon.Jerusalem: Hispania Judaica, Dinur Institute, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 1993-1995
Good source of names and archival extracts.

Mane, Maria Cinta (Assis, Yomtob, ed.)

The Jews in Barcelona, 1213-1291 : regesta of documents from the Archivo Capitular.Jerusalem: Hispania Judaica, Dinur Institute, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 1988
Archival extracts.

Days of Honey: The Tunisian Boyhood of Rafael Uzan.Schocken Books, 1984.
Order from Amazon Books now.Biography of the early life of a Safed artist's life in a small Tunisian town and his imprisonment in a Nazi camp. By an award winning artist. Excellent.

The man in the white sharkskin suit: my familys exodus from Old Cairo to the New World.New York: Ecco, 2007.
Order from Amazon Books now.Moving description of Jewish life in early 20th century Cairo and subsequent immigrant struggles in the US.

The Alliance Israelite and the Jewish Communities of Morocco 1862-1962.Albany, State U of NY Press, 1983.
Order from Amazon Books now.Filled with hard to find facts like all Laskier's books.

Laskier, Michael M.

North African Jewry in the 20th Century: The Jews of Morocco, Tunisia and Algeria.NYU Press, 1997.
Order from Amazon Books now.By an expert on middle eastern Jewry. Filled with solid facts like all Laskier's books.

Les juifs d'Algerie sous le regime de Vichy: 10 juillet 1940-3 novembre 1943.Harmattan, 1999.
A vivid and detailed history of the Jews of Algeria under the Vichy government in WW II.

Romanelli, Samuel

Travail in an Arab Land. Order from Amazon Books now.University of Alabama Press 1989.
Uncannily accurate and beautifully written travelogue of an eighteenth century Italian Jew's 4 year stay in Morocco. Highly recommended. (Excellent translation from the poetic Hebrew by Stillman).

Among the righteous: lost stories from the Holocaust's long reach into Arab lands. Order from Amazon Books now.Public Affairs, 2006. Historian describes suffering of the Jews of North Africa under Vichy and WWII including the little known 100+ brutal labor camps
in North Africa, harsh anti-Jewish laws, torture and death. Essential to understanding North African Jewish suffering during WWII.

Stillman, Norman

The Jews of Arab Lands in Modern Times.Jewish Publication Society of America, 2003.
Order from Amazon Books now.A standard in the field. Essential reading.

Sebag, Paul

Les Noms Des Juifs de Tunisie: Origines Et Significations.Paris: Harmattan, 2002.
Order from Amazon Books now.Dictionary of Tunisian Jewish names. Has a number of errors but otherwise a good resource.

Toledano, Joseph

La Saga des Familles. Les Juifs du Maroc et leurs noms.Stavit, Tel Aviv, 1983.
Much smaller, but similar to Laredo's Noms des...... Does not indicate sources but has many old photos of family members.

Juifs d'Andalousie et du Maghreb. (Jews of Andalusia and of the Maghreb). Paris, Maisonneuve and Larose, 1996.
Order from Amazon Books now.Essential reading by the foremost living authority on the Maghreb and Jewish Andalusia.

Zafrani, Haim.

Two Thousand Years of Jewish Life in Morocco. KTAV Publishing House 2003.
Order from Amazon Books now.English version of an earlier book by this noted authority.

The Inquisitors and the Jews in the New World.University of Miami Press.
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Except for a brief introduction, the entire book is a listing of Inquisition Records in the New World. Good source for converso names in the New World.

Margolinsky, Jul

299 epitaphs from the Jewish cemetry in St Thomas, W.I., 1937-1916. With an index compiled from records in the archives of the Jewish Community in Copenhagen.Copenhagen, 1957

Last Century of a Sephardic Community. The Jews of Monastir, 1839-1943.Foundation for the Advancement of Sephardic Studies and Culture, NY. 2003.
History on the Sephardic Jews of Monastir during the past century.

Franco, Moise

Essai sur l'histoire des Israelites de l'Empire Ottoman depuis les origines jusqu'a nos jours. Paris, Dularcher, 1897. (in French)
Order from Amazon Books now.This work is a real masterpiece on the subject. The 1897 edition has no index, but many names are mentionned.

Jewish life in Turkey in the XVIth century, as reflected in the legal writings of Samuel de Medina.New York, Jewish Theological Seminary of America, 1952.
Excellent descriptions of life in Salonika and the Ottoman Empire during the 16th century.

History of the Jews of Kastoria. Foundation for the Advancement of Sephardic Studies and Culture, NY. (expanded reprint of 1938 volume).
History on the Sephardic Jews of Monastir during the past century.

Yehudei Bulgaria bishnot hamishtar hanatsi, 1940-1944.(Jews of Bulgaria during the years of the Nazi regime, 1940-1944). Tel Aviv, 1962. 436p. (in Hebrew).
This book is the first one on this subject. When immigrating to Israel in 1949, Arditti brought with him a rich documentation which allowed him to analyze the subject. Includes a documents list, a wide bibliography and an index. This is a masterpiece on the matter. It unfortunately only exists in Hebrew.

Benbassa, Esther; Rodrigue, Aron

A Sephardi Life in Southeastern
Europe - The Autobiography and Journal of Gabriel Arie, 1863-1939. Order from Amazon Books now.Univ. of Washington Press, Seattle, 1998.
See listing of names in this family tree under "Search for names" or click here.

Benbassa, Esther; Rodrigue, Aron

The Jews of the Balkans: The Judeo-Spanish Community, 15th to 20th Centuries (Jewish Communities of the Modern World). Order from Amazon Books now.University of California Press, 2000.

Chary, Frederick B.

The Bulgarian Jews and the Final Solution 1940-1944. Pittsburgh, University of Pittsburgh Press, 1972.
Order from Amazon Books now.A well-documented study about that miracle that occured in Bulgaria: its Jews, in the heart of Europe were not deported during WW2. The book has a
detailed index and a "bibliographical essay". Many footnotes enlarging the subject.

Tamir, Vicky

Bulgaria and her Jews: the history of a dubious symbiosis. New York, Sepher-Hermon Press for Yeshiva University Press, 1979.
Order from Amazon Books now.The most comprehensive study (in English) on this Diaspora. Contains a large bibliography and a detailed index with a lot a names.

Sephardic Genealogy:
Discovering Your Sephardic Ancestors and Their World. 2nd Ed., Avotaynu, 2009.
Click here for Table of Contents and to order.Indispensible. The ONLY comprehensive book for Sephardic Genealogy. --
History, research methods, archives, surnames, maps, bibliography, and more. (Includes pre-expulsion and Inquisition records in Spain and the New World).

The Inquisitors and the Jews in the New World.University of Miami Press.
Order from Amazon Books now.Except for a brief introduction, the entire book is a listing of Inquisition Records in the New World. Good source for converso names in the New World.

The Last Kabbalist of Lisbon. Overlook Press 2000.
Order from Amazon Books now.First book in Sephardic trilogy. Set in pre-expulsion Portugal. Superb. Hard to put down. Best seller in several countries.

Zimler, Richard

Hunting Midnight. Delacorte Press 2003.
Order from Amazon Books now.Second book in Sephardic trilogy. Same family but now in late 18th and early 19th century Portugal.
Mostly written from the perspective of a child which renders it somewhat juvenile.

Journey to the end of the Millenium. Harvest Books, 2000.
Order from Amazon Books now.One of Israel's internationally acclaimed top two authors writes about a Sephardic Morrocan merchant family travelling to Paris in the year 999 C.E. Highly recommended.

Yehoshua, A. B.

Mr. Mani. NY: Doubleday, 1992.
Order from Amazon Books now.Possibly his most complex novel. About 6 generations of a Sephardic family. Takes you through Jerusalem, Crete, Istanbul, the Negev, Athens and even Poland in what the NY Times Book Review described as "Faulkner with an admixture of Joyce".

Rushdie, Salman

The Moor's Last Sigh. Pantheon Books, 1997.
Order from Amazon Books now.Yes, it is the author of Satanic Verses. About a Portuguese Sephardic merchant family in Kochin, India and later Bombay and Spain. Well researched and just wonderful.

The Last Jew. Griffin Trade, 2002.
Order from Amazon Books now.Young Yonah Toledano is orphaned in Spain in the days of the Inquisition. Gripping story.

Halter, Marek

The Book of Abraham.Holt Rinehart & Winston, 1986.
Order from Amazon Books now.Called the Jewish "Roots" novel, is based on the author's family history. Abraham escapes the Roman destruction of Jerusalem carrying a scroll of his family history. The novel follows the scroll through 19 centuries including Alexandria, Toledo, Warsaw, etc.